Tomie

Tomie is character from Junji Ito's manga. She is living embodiment of lust and all the negative emotions that go along with it, such as jealousy. Tomie is capable of regenerating and her body parts are capable of regrowing into another Tomie.

Origin

Tomie's was murdered during a school trip, by her teacher Mr. Takagi and fellow students. They thought she fell to her death after getting into a argument with her teacher who then ordered the guys in the class to help him dismember her and take her body parts and dispose of them. However after a few days she came back to class without any sign of being cut up into pieces.

Creation

Tomie was created by Horror manga artist Junji Ito. She first appeared in serialized comics between 1987 and 2000. Ito won the 1987 Kazuo Umezu Prize for his work on Tomie.

Abilities

Copies of Tomie coming out of a carpet soaked in her blood

Tomie is unable to die as she is capable of healing from the most fatal of wounds to which people consider her a monster. Another of her abilities is to create a copy of herself. Due to Tomie being killed is the most violent manner in the series it is possible for her to regrow any missing limb or body part. Her copies also acquire her memories but also desire to destroy the original they came from. It is shown that if someone is injected with her cells they will either turn into a monstrosity of her or slowly turn into a copy of her. Through sleight of hand, or emotional manipulation, she is capable of controlling men. She usually uses them to do her bidding and when she is done with them they either kill themselves or go into jealous rages that inevitably lead to brutal acts of violence towards her. This effect of hers also works on girls but with different effects which causes them to go into jealous rages as well.